Sentence suspended for ex-Glenholme student

Published 4:59 pm, Wednesday, January 22, 2014

A former Devereux Glenholme School student recently had his sentence suspended to time served for the strangulation and assault on a Glenholme staff member.

Robert Messina-Toombs. 19, was facing concurrent four-year sentences after being charged as an adult with first-degree robbery, first-degree assault and first-degree strangulation stemming from a June 2011 attack.

The night watchman beaten by Messina-Tombs, Edward Zeiner, died in October. He was age 62.

He had suffered from constant headaches, hearing loss and had been diagnosed by mental health providers as "having post traumatic stress disorder as a result of the attack," according to a federal suit filed by Zeiner's family in Oct. 2012.